Improvement in vapor-lamps



T. BRAKE.

VAPOR LAMP.

*No. 37,811. Patented Mar. 3, 1863.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

TIMOTHY BRAKE, OF WINDSOR, CONNECTICUT.'

IMPROVHMENT lN VAPOR-LAMPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 37,811, dated March`3,r163.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, TIMOTHY BRAKE, of `Windsor, county ct' Hartford, and- State of Connecticut, have inventeda certain new and useful Improvement in Vapor-Lamps; and I do hereby declare that the same is described and represented in the following specification and drawings; and to enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, I will proceed to describe its construction, referring to the drawings, in which the same letters indivcate like parts in each ofthe figures.

The nature of this improvement in vaporlamps consists in the combination or arrangement ot" an interior perforated-diaphragm vaporizing and gas chamber, to increase the rapidity and perfection of the generating process, and at the same time to secure a greater richness to its external appearance, and also to 'render it more convenient for adjustment 0E' its parts.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures 1 and 2 are pe1"]')endicular sectional elevations ot my improvement. Figs. 3 and 4 are perpendicular sectional elevations ot' the same in amodiied form. Figs. 5 and 7 are horizontal sectional views cut through the line A. Figs. 6 and 8 are horizontal sectional views .out through the line l.

The tube is made in two parts, a b, and jointed at' c.

d is the burner-tube, made whole,or it may be made in two parts, having one or more per- Ibrations, c, to allow thegas to flow into the chamberf and to the burner slit or perforations g.

h is a diaphragm fitted loosely inside ot' the upper portion of a tube,having a stem, t', fitted into the lower end of the burner tube d, and having pert'orations j, (more or less in number,) and a solid body of metal, o, extending down, which acts as a retort from the. blaze to the iluid which surrounds it. Thus I separate the upper portion of the tube into two compartments, the upper one, lc, as a gas-cham ber' and the lower one, a', distillation-chamber, which chamber I propose to fill around the solid metal o, to hold the diaphragm up to its place by means of suitable absorbing substance.

m are heater-plates made in the form of a half-circle, having conductors n `extendin g downward and secured to a sliding tube, p, itted loosely to the top end ot' the upper por tion of the tube, so as to be easily adjusted to the dame. I propose sometimes to perforate the heaterplates m, and also sometimes to dispense with the plates m, using` simply a rod or continuation ot' lthe conductors ln, bentinto suoli shape as to bring its sides parallel with and near to the blaze,instead ofthe heater-plates m.

The modifications shown in Figs. 3 and 4 are simply in dispensing with the tube p and titting the conductors n to the openings sin the burner-tube d and diaphragm h, so that the heater m maybe easily adjusted as may be desirable.

Fig. 9 simply indicates the mode ot' arranging this improvement to a bracket or hung lamp.

I believe that the benefit to the public to be derived from the use of my improvement is so clear and important that any further descriptionis unnecessary, its operation, when ready for use, being much like those now in use.

What I claim,the.refore, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is, as a new improved article of manufacture, viz

l. The combination of the heaters on n, chamber k, diaphragm li, and vaporizing-ehaniber a, substantially in the manner as and for the purpose described.

2. The heaters m n, with the interior perforated diaphrugm, h, substantially in the manner and for the purpose described.

TIMOTHY BRAKE. pt. s]

.Witnesses:

E. W. Fon/LER, JEREMY W. BLIss. 

